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Cattle Ranching is a major cause in climate change. Cows releases methane, which is a greenhouse gas, when they burp and fart. Cattle ranching causes mass deforestation, just to make room for these ranches. The US uses 47% of it's land for food production, and 70% of the food grown on that land is grown for cattle feed that's 32.9% of the land in the US used just for cattle feed! Only 1% of the land is used for food we eat directly. Also, 10-12% of the US greenhouse gas emissions is from cattle! So if we just switched to an alternative, even for one meal in a week, we can make a huge difference!

This article talks about how this year's winter is going to be longer than last year, saying "he expects winter in Canada to linger, meaning snowstorms could continue into March". This is because more severe storms and season shift are an effect of climate change. Season shift is when the winter cold stays for longer into spring, or when the heat stays longer into the winter. The article also says this winter's snowstorms will call for a lot of snow. This is because more severe storms is also another effect of climate change.

a change in global or regional climate patterns. Attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. There are many small ways and larger ways to counteract the problem we have created. Unplugging appliances when not in use. Using energy efficient vehicles and appliances. Refilling water bottles instead of using plastic bottles.

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Ellen. T

1/18/2018 09:10:15 pm

For tens of thousands of year the earth had a healthy cycle that could regulate the CO2 in our enviroment. Things release CO2 and things could absorb that CO2 as well. But because of humans those vital things are being killed off so that at the rate that we release CO2 into the world is overwhelming compared to the rate it it being absorbed. CO2 is large quantities is so dangerous because once there is a large quantity of it will create something called the greenhouse effect. This effect traps heat within the atmosphere and is warming parts of the earth, starting with the ice quantities. When the land ice melts, it travels into the sea. When the sea levels begin to rise it causes things like flooding in places with lower ranges above sea levels. But this is only one effect of climate change. The heating of the earth also dries the plants, causing deadly and destructive forest fires. The earth is like a long road that humans travel on. But if we keep polluting the earth at this rate, there may not be a world left to save at the end of the road.

An example of climate change is the glaciers melting way faster compared to many years ago. When the glaciers melt the sea levels rise because when it melts it goes into the ocean!Not only will we get more flooding but there would be a huge release of methane because in the glaciers it stored methane of thousands of years.

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